Tuesday - Decembre 15th - 2009
Well, I could repeat myself in saying that it's disgraceful that it's been so long since updates have appeared, but this is due more to my lack of ability to sit down and type updates out than any sort of lack of news. In fact, we have more news around here than I can probably lay out in a clean way, though I will try..
Work and progress on certain things seems to have streamlined itself in a manner that I cannot explain.
Our biggest news first; He Of The House and all sub-labels have officially merged with TRASHFUCK Records, and all sub-labels (TRASHFUCK NET, Trashfuck Tapes, Piss Free Tapes), a label run by my brother Patrick (founder of the noise-monolith RedSK) out of Michigan. Soon, Patrick will be moving to Texas, thus making this merge even more official and easier to manage, but for now, HeOfTheHouse.com will host all information, net-releases, discographies, and so on.
MAGAZINE
The first issue of He Of The House Magazine is also almost complete. I have collected quite a few amazing bits and pieces for this, including articles, poetry, reviews, short stories, column pieces which will appear in every issue henceforth, artwork, and so on. I am extremely happy with the amount of attention and interest that this branch of the House has receieved, and thus, will indeed be putting an issue out every month. In light of this, I will also be starting a Horror / Weird Fiction magazine, also print and perhaps monthly or bi-monthly. This will not happen for some time, but it will certainly be a treat to work on.
The Magazine is also going to be running ads in three different sizes, I have decided. This will ONLY be available to truly independent and DIY artists, labels, and companies. No corporate blood money will run down this House's walls. Deadline for the first issue's submissions is closing in fast, so if you have something, please send it soon.
NEW HOUSEPETS
NOTE: This is not going to be a notice for each new artist that releases on any of the labels. It will be a notice for artists or bands who sign on for true management and label-head through either Haute Magie or Domovoi. Such as...
- Woven: a two-man group of equal parts brutality and beauty who eschew any sense of normality and hum drum sounds for the most barren of soundscapes and the most complex of devastating metal structures.
- MY FLEA CIRCUS: Circus punk. Electromental. Bigtop downtempo. These terms and possibly thousands of others could describe the scorching sound of MY FLEA CIRCUS, but they wouldn't come close to truly grasping the obviously visceral meaning behind their message. I truly now feel as if I have my very own flea circus.
NEW SITE SECTION
- Press: I originally had this labeled as 'Media', and then realised how redundant and arbitrary that name was, so I changed it. This section has been created to house all of the reviews, videos, interviews, et cetera that may come up on any of our artists, or anything related to He Of The House in general.
NEW RELEASES COMING SOON
- from Haute Magie, we have a batch of five new releases coming out. From Domovoi, we have a batch of three new releases coming out. These will be posted up soon.
NEW DISTRO ITEM
- from Felt Cat Records: Sleepers "Sounds For a Healthy B(r)ane" c30 cassette. This will be posted up quite soon in the Shoppe, and will be available for purchase at $6.
NEW ARTIST PAGES
- the individual artist pages for the labels were becoming too much to handle, and with the merge, it would have been impossible to make all of the pages necessary. Thus, everything has been grouped into one page for each respective label. I will also be making promotional pages for My Flea Circus and Woven when I can.
NEW FEATURES
- on the eponymous page to the right. I have been working very slowly yet surely on this, and it will be full of sweet&sour goodies soon, no doubt.
Saturday - Oktobre 31st - 2009
Merry Samhain / happy Hallowe'en everyone. Speaking of which, the compilation is officially out now, and available for purchase from the Shoppe. The Compilation section has also been added to the sidebar. All future compilations will be entered into that section. The next upcoming one will be a spoken word comp. On a side note, the News will be more organised from now on, and will appear in groups as follows.
NEW SITE SECTIONS
- Features: this section has changed drastically. Instead of being a review section, it will have odd and seemingly fun (at least to myself) little perks for the site. Give it a look.
- Compilation: as mentioned above
- Reviews: This will house all of the reviews which will appear / have appeared in He Of The House Magazine. If you would like to write for HOTH, send a message.
- HUMAN.BURIAL.tapes-and-CDs: at heofthehouse.com/humanburial. Official website for HUMAN.BURIAL, a mail-order record label begun by my brother and good friend Jason "EVIL" Covelli
NEW RELEASE
- from He Of The House Media - HOTHCOMP001 - "We'll Leave The Lights On" - a Samhain / Hallowe'en compilation
NEW DISTRO ITEMS
- from a trade with Black Pyramid Records: Bring Me The Head of Orion "Pray For Carrion" CDr, Senotaphium "Anima" CDr, Corpse Candle "A Pox / A Plague" CDr, Alalu "Sacred Numbers" CDr, Erg vs. Draumar "Kriegkunst" 3inch CDr ----- these are all limited to one copy, and are available for purchase at $8 CDr and $4 3inch CDr
- from He Of The House Media - HOTHCOMP001 - "We'll Leave The Lights On" - a Samhain / Hallowe'en compilation
NEW IDEAS / REVELATIONS
- I am thinking of eventually starting up a tiny sublabel. It won't get that much attention, and won't be very intensive, but I think it will be entertaining, and I've always wanted to work in this area. It will be a 'trash art' (though all art is trash in some way...) label. Cassettes and CDrs, extremely limited runs (5-15). Xeroxed covers and inserts. All noises and forms welcome.
- I have finally admitted to myself that Domovoi Records has fallen under Haute Magie's shadow. I am by absolutely no means closing Domovoi down. I don't have it in me, considering how long the name and ideals have existed. I am going to, of course, release everything that Domovoi has promised and backed up, but Domovoi may just become the namesake for these releases. Still, expect a heavy flow of amazing material, and perhaps things won't change at all.
- Compilations. The themed compilations are going to be a big part of HOTH Media, and I have literally dozens of ideas for them, with more and more blossoming every day.
Tuesday - Oktobre 27th - 2009
- Before business sets in... I've noticed a LOT of traffic to the website lately. This pleases me greatly, as I am trying to move away from the world of Myspace. If you are a regular visitor of this site, then please, by all means, let me know. Leave some feedback. It'd be nice to hear who's coming to the House. For dinner?
- The Torturing Nurse cassette fist a sickle / destruction output (c15) has finally been released on Haute Magie Records. It is up in the shoppe, and available for only $6.
- The Mike Bruno CDr In Memory has also been released on Domovoi Records, and is available in the shoppe for $8.
- Two new distro items: Torturing Nurse - fist a sickle / destruction output (Haute Magie Records) & the Waltz / Given Willingly split CDr / minicd-diskette (self-released). The W/GW split comes inside of a handmade and painted mini canvas. You can grab the one and only copy for only $10 (it's quite heavy). This will be up in the shoppe as soon as I finish the News.
- We should also have even more distro quite soon. Haute Magie Records has traded with Black Pyramid Records to bring you absolutely amazing releases from Corpse Candle, Bring Me the Head of Orion, Invisible Waves, Erg vs. Draumar, Senotaphium, Alalu, and Aleph-Naught.
- Also received an equally-as-amazing package from Crater Records. Very excited to be working with this label in the near future, as Sleepers has a split release with the label's founder's project, Rei Rea, and the same project has an purely amazing album coming out on CDr (Issou), on Haute Magie.
- Haute Magie has welcomed three new members to the family: Woven, Fury Buffalo, and Saturn Form Essence. Expect a CD release from the former, and cassettes from the latter two eventually. For more information, visit here.
- Woven has officially finished their first EP, and will be released on Haute Magie on CD quite soon.
- The first HOTH Newsletter mock up has been made. I will post more information on this soon, but each order made will receive one of these. The first issue of HOTH Magazine is well on its way. On a side note, everything sent to the PO Box (that is good, obviously) will be reviewed, and extreme cases may garner an interview with the label or artist. Or both! So, send away. I love receiving mail.
- There have also been massive updates to the site, specifically the Magazine section. I am working ever so slightly on the artist pages, as always...
I think that's enough for now.
//OH! I forgot the Halloween compilation! Jesus.. I haven't posted anything at all about it on here. Well, no bother. We have had many amazing submissions for this, and I am excited to put it out. I am going to dedicate an entire portion of the website to the compilations, which will be out under He Of The House Media, not Domovoi or Haute Magie. So, look for that soon. It may have to be released on or slightly after Halloween, but oh well. It's more of a 'harvest' theme anyway.
Monday - Oktobre 19th - 2009
- Huff. It's been a little while. But don't let that fool you, massive updates and revelations have appeared at the doorstep of the House.
Saturday - August 29th - 2009
- It's finally here! Haute Magie's first release, the Zebulon Kosted cassette Novaya Zemlya has, after such a very long wait, been released. I am extremely proud to have this out into the world, after all of the tedious work and setbacks in general. Order your copy now for only six dollars.
- I am currently working on the Torturing Nurse cassette fist a sickle / destruction output, a two track, fifteen minute recording of absolute cathartic madness. As soon as my dubbing machine decides to start working again, the tapes will be underway once more. In the meantime, I will work on the packaging and cases.
- There may be a few new distro items soon. I have been speaking with a few different labels about trades and such. We are always up to trades / distro requests.
- Artist pages are STILL under construction. It's been a while, I know, but they take a lot of work. I am slowly getting them to where I want them.
- The first issue of He Of The House magazine is well underway, and I am now accepting submissions for artwork / writings / reviews, and so on. Send those to the E-Mail on the contact page.
- I have decided that the magazine will be free with orders of fifteen dollars or more, and will come with two compilation CDs, one from Domovoi and one from Haute Magie. Some issues may come with cassettes, and if we get more established, perhaps vinyl. Alone, the magazine will be three dollars.
Sunday - August 16th - 2009
- Massive updates to the site have been made. I was extremely unhappy with the way everything looked, so a complete physical makeover has been applied. Feature will see its first submission as soon as I am done typing this out. The artist pages are still very much under construction
- We have purchased our Dual Cassette Deck, and the Duplicator arrived yesterday. I shall be finishing up the Zebulon Kosted tape / Mike Bruno CD, and starting work on the Toturing Nurse cassette fairly soon.
- We also recently acquired -brace yourself- almost a thousand cassettes from a woman who bought an old house at a foreclosure auction. This will be put to very good use in the upcoming months, I am sure.
Saturday - August 8th - 2009
- The site is very heavily under construction. Many of the artist pages are a little skewed, and other sections are being built up. This will not be like this for long.
Friday - August 7th - 2009
- Well, it's been almost exactly four months. Disgraceful. Anyways, HOTH and I are back in business. I went through a whole lot of personal problems and setbacks, and therefore, I was forced to put everything on a bit of a hiatus. Let me firmly state that I take everything I do VERY seriously, and this is NOT how HOTH will operate in the future. It seems to me like it's been a constant string of 'always somethings', as it may to a few others who know me, going a bit of a way's back. That will all change, now. My mind and body are fully in the game.
- Equipemnt updates! I have my printer and scanning system back up and operational. We should be receiving our tape duplicator any day now. I will be getting the dual cassette deck / dubber fairly soon as well. I set up an account with an excellent source for any independent media business / label, tapes.com.
- I have removed the 'Members Area' and reverted the News page back to the original form. The MA is not important at all, right now, and only takes away from the site's layout. There is a new site area, Features. I will be posting regularly in this sections, so look out for that.
- New Distro item! The sleepers / ginny greenteeth split cassette has arrived, and is gorgeous. I am extremely proud of this release. Pick up a copy from us, in the Shoppe, or from Marygarden Tapes.
- Flood of releases coming. And this time, I mean it, or you can call me Sally. Well, you can call me Sally anyways. Cassettes from Zebulon Kosted (Rachid is a Saint for having so much patience), Torturing Nurse, a punch of pacifist, Ginny Greenteeth. CDs from Mike Bruno, MESSENGER, Sleepers, Nemesism / Tayside Mental Health. And many, many more.
- I've also begun working on the first issue of He Of The House Magazine. I will open submissions for this quite soon. For now, I will begin posting reviews in the Magazine section.
Friday - April 10th - 2009
- Some of you (or, none) may have noticed that there is now a 'members' area login on the home page. This isn't really of a concern as of right now, but it will become an essential part of the website once I configure everything.
- I am testing out the new News page. I do not think that this works in all browsers, but if any errors occur, then by all means, click the link above the Iframe and you will be redirected to the old News page. If this does not work continually, I will remove the Iframe and revert everything back to the original page.
- Say something; I would like to know that the pages are at least being trawled through. Let me know what you think of the site, anything that could be added or deleted. Anything in general. Is anyone out there?!
Monday - April 6th - 2009
- Well, it's been quite a while since I've gotten the chance to update the site. I had been hoping to get to it sooner, but I have just been so busy with Haute Magie and Domovoi, among other things, and am currently patiently awaiting the tape duplicator that I recently purchased. This will make things much smoother
- There is a Zebulon Kosted master and artwork in the mail, which will be put out through Haute Magie as Novaya Zemyla, a true arctic Black Noise masterpiece. I am excited to put this out as HM001
- Mailing List is now activated - venture on over to the contact page for details
- Mike Bruno's In Memory Cdr will be available from Domovoi Records (Dom001) later on this month, and will most likely be released alongside Novaya Zemyla, actually. It is currently available for pre order. Follow instructions on the Contact page
Sunday - March 22nd - 2009
- All link problems have been fixed, as far as I can tell. There will be a mailing list subscription option for those of you who wish to receive more instant updates about HOTH, Domovoi, Haute Magie, the magazine, and the website. This will be located in the 'Contact' page
Saturday - March 21st - 2009
- Today, after a long and arduous process of trial and error, and a rather frustrated call to a customer service representative, I am proud to announce heofthehouse.com's official launch to the internets
- Domovoi Records and Haute Magie Records are officially going into effect with this launch, and their first releases, Mike Bruno's In Memory CD and Torturng Nurse's fist a sickle / destruction output cassette tape (respectively) should be coming out within the next few upcoming months
- Working on the bugs in the site, namely the link colour change on the contact page and the broken links on the home page
As I just started building the website last night, there are still going to be major changes and additions, especially to the label pages and such